Jane Wagner
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LGBT person
film director
film producer
human
playwright
screenwriter
television producer
television writer
theatre director
writer
Jane Wagner is an American writer, director, and producer best known for her long-running creative collaboration and personal partnership with comedian and actress Lily Tomlin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Wagner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11121691 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Wagner Context triple: [Lily Tomlin, spouse, Jane Wagner]
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A.
Miriam Wagner
Miriam Wagner was the wife of American television host and comedian Jack Paar.
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B.
Eva Wagner
Eva Wagner was a daughter of the famed German composer Richard Wagner, belonging to the prominent Wagner family closely associated with the Bayreuth Festival.
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C.
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner is an American film producer and former talent agent best known for her longtime collaboration with Tom Cruise and co-founding Cruise/Wagner Productions.
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D.
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner is the mother of American actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley.
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E.
Verena Wagner Lafferentz
Verena Wagner Lafferentz was a German granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner and a member of the Wagner family closely associated with the Bayreuth Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Wagner Target entity description: Jane Wagner is an American writer, director, and producer best known for her long-running creative collaboration and personal partnership with comedian and actress Lily Tomlin.
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A.
Miriam Wagner
Miriam Wagner was the wife of American television host and comedian Jack Paar.
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B.
Eva Wagner
Eva Wagner was a daughter of the famed German composer Richard Wagner, belonging to the prominent Wagner family closely associated with the Bayreuth Festival.
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C.
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner is an American film producer and former talent agent best known for her longtime collaboration with Tom Cruise and co-founding Cruise/Wagner Productions.
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D.
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner is the mother of American actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley.
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E.
Verena Wagner Lafferentz
Verena Wagner Lafferentz was a German granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner and a member of the Wagner family closely associated with the Bayreuth Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT person
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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New York Drama Critics' Circle Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
|
| collaborator | Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeRole |
director of stage productions for Lily Tomlin
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producer of television specials for Lily Tomlin ⓘ writer of monologues for Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wagner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jane ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jane Wagner ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creative collaboration with Lily Tomlin
ⓘ
personal partnership with Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
J.T. (television film)
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Lily (television special) ⓘ Moment by Moment ⓘ The Incredible Shrinking Woman ⓘ The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe ⓘ |
| occupation |
director
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partner | Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse | Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| wroteFor | Lily Tomlin comedy specials ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Jane Wagner Description of subject: Jane Wagner is an American writer, director, and producer best known for her long-running creative collaboration and personal partnership with comedian and actress Lily Tomlin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.